Soft in the Middle : The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts /
Andrews, David, 1970-
Soft in the Middle : The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts / David Andrews. - 1 online resource (334 pages): illustrations - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Introduction: approaching the softcore feature -- Soft v. hard -- The disorderly feminization of classical sexploitation: tracing the genealogy of contemporary softcore -- "Spicy, but not obscene": industrial and formal retooling in 1980s sexploitation -- Class, gender, and genre in Zalman King's "real high erotica": the conflicting mandates of female fantasy -- Sex is dangerous, so satisfy your wife: the softcore thriller in its contexts -- Softcore as serialized (and feminized) featurette: postfeminist propriety on late-night cable -- The softcore public: a cult of bad faith? -- Corporate softcore and its discontents: weightlessness and weightiness at Playboy Enterprises -- "From skin to scream": evolution and elevation at a cult softcore label -- Whither softcore?
Open Access
9780814272336
Sexfilm.
Geschichte.
Erotischer Film
Erotic films.
Films erotiques--Histoire et critique.--États-Unis
Erotic films--History and criticism.--United States
USA.
USA
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Soft in the Middle : The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts / David Andrews. - 1 online resource (334 pages): illustrations - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Introduction: approaching the softcore feature -- Soft v. hard -- The disorderly feminization of classical sexploitation: tracing the genealogy of contemporary softcore -- "Spicy, but not obscene": industrial and formal retooling in 1980s sexploitation -- Class, gender, and genre in Zalman King's "real high erotica": the conflicting mandates of female fantasy -- Sex is dangerous, so satisfy your wife: the softcore thriller in its contexts -- Softcore as serialized (and feminized) featurette: postfeminist propriety on late-night cable -- The softcore public: a cult of bad faith? -- Corporate softcore and its discontents: weightlessness and weightiness at Playboy Enterprises -- "From skin to scream": evolution and elevation at a cult softcore label -- Whither softcore?
Open Access
9780814272336
Sexfilm.
Geschichte.
Erotischer Film
Erotic films.
Films erotiques--Histoire et critique.--États-Unis
Erotic films--History and criticism.--United States
USA.
USA
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.